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My worst Christmas present from an employer was when I was working at a Warehouse while I [...]

Roommates will track the lives of four women in their 20s who have recently graduated from college and are living together in Los Angeles. The web show runs through December 21 for a total of 45 episodes. A new, three-minute segment will play each day, Monday through Friday. Fans are expected to engage characters [...]

The company was expected to raise about $20 million on the local market, giving it a market capitalisation of $100 million, The New Zealand Herald reported today. Diligent has a division in Christchurch where its main server is based and its software developed, while one of its founders %26#150; chief [...]

Wales told a conference of software developers in Portland, Oregon, that his commercial start-up, Wikia, has acquired Grub, a pioneering Web crawler that will enable Wikia’s forthcoming search service to scour the Web to index relevant sites. “If we can get good quality search results, I think it will really [...]

Google’s OpenSocial system gives developers standardised tools
to build applications and embed them in many sites, eliminating the
need for small startups or even one-person shops to customise their
programs for each site.
It also has the potential to lure developers mostly allied with
Facebook by allowing their applications to find a home on many
other websites.
“This is about making the [...]

The top provider of Web searching has been testing Google Gadget Ads, as the new service is known, as a way to deliver
eye-catching ads that have the dynamism of television but also the Web interactivity that lets users choose what they see.
Some analysts and early advertisers who have tested the ads with consumers said [...]

Armed with a cash pile of $US23 billion, Microsoft has been rumored to be targeting acquisitions like Yahoo,
or social networking phenomenon Facebook.
Speaking to the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Ballmer would not comment directly on any potential acquisitions, but he said Microsoft’s current focus is
the “independent path.”
“If at some point it makes [...]

Microsoft and Facebook said the $US240 million investment valued Facebook
at $US15 billion, which analysts said was a steep price and a bet
the young company would be able to transform itself into a hub for
all sorts of Web activity.
“The only way this works is if Facebook becomes sort of the users’
operating [...]

Google recently released a tool kit which allows developers to build applications for its
“Android” platform, due for release next year. Google’s system is a
free software package for mobile phones that it says will make it easier to surf the Web from
cellphones.
The Associated Press reports that Google will award 50 $US25,000 prizes, [...]

The schoolboy was a season-ticket holder at Everton but Liverpool FC said they would play the tune “Johnny Todd” which usually greets their city rivals as they take to the pitch. “Chief executive Rick Parry spoke with Rhys’ family who agreed they would be delighted if the Reds paid tribute [...]